Baltimore 11^th October 1799 Dear Sir My Brother is now writing to you on the Subject of the Contract His engagements with the Clerk to the [undecipherable] for supplying rations unfortunately furnished the basis of some misunderstanding I therefore in your Candor and the equity of nature men confidence, as far as to hope that I have not suffered in the Operations of Doctor Wallis with his relations Notwithstanding [undecipherable] misrepresentation should notice be [undecipherable] of supposed [undecipherable] I should have a [undecipherable: full] right to [undecipherable] it cannot be to [undecipherable: deny] that the rations were for the [undecipherable] the left [undecipherable: command] or they have been equal to any in the [undecipherable: States] and have [undecipherable: a better] [undecipherable] The [undecipherable: copies] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] are worthy the most [undecipherable: minute] investigation & will of a [undecipherable: notice] then the [undecipherable: communications] of [undecipherable] of Doctor [undecipherable] The [undecipherable] have been [undecipherable] the Troops [undecipherable] after their [undecipherable] there [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] proportion of [undecipherable] after the [undecipherable] of the Troops on the [undecipherable: line] [undecipherable: A] plan of ordering the [undecipherable: Troops] and [undecipherable] their [undecipherable: movements] in the [undecipherable: direction] I am [undecipherable: well] satisfied with [undecipherable] the [undecipherable: manner] this arrangement was in the ordering of the [undecipherable: rations] and I have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable: various] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] then [undecipherable] the Troops will apply to Congress for [undecipherable: Redress] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am [undecipherable: afraid] to [undecipherable: open] this matter [undecipherable] [undecipherable] taken in on this head and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the information which [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The Doctor is a [undecipherable: great] Impostor [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [11^th October 1799 Col^l Nicholson [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by Oxford & [undecipherable]]